Cotton-chopper.



Nu. 696,32I.' Patented Mar. 25, |902.

A. D. Ez"zE|.|.-. COTTUN CHDPPER.

l (Appli'catinn med Jan. 1a, 1902.) (No Model.) l

.., Il l lllllll l A T7' OHNE Y S UNITED' STATESV PATENT OFFICE.

AZZERIAH D. EZZELL, OF CLINTON, NORTH CAROLINA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO ERASTUS COOPER, OF CLINTON,NORTII CAROLINA.

COTTON-CHOPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 695,321, dated March 25, 1902.

Application ined January 1s, 1902. seria No. 39,611. uit model.)

.To ctZZ whom t nitty concern:

Be it known that I, AZZERIAH D. EZZELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Olinton, in the county of Sampson and State of North Carolina, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Cotton-Choppers, of.

which the following is a specilication.

My invention is an improvement in cottoncertain novel constructions and combinationsV of parts, asr will be hereinafter described and claimed. Y

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view ofmy invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section thereof, and Figs. 3 and 4 zo are respectively detail perspective views of one of the mashing-barsV and one of the cutters.

In carrying out my invention I employ a suitable frame, which may be ofthe rectanz 5 guiar form shown, with the side bars A, the

front bar B, and the rear bar O and with upright D on the rear bar operating to support the rear ends of the handles E, whose front ends are connected with the frame near its 3o front end, as shown. At its front end the frame is provided with a draft-hook. F for connection with the draft devices,and the side bars of the frame are provided at G and G' with bearings for the shafts H and H of the 3 5 front and rear wheels, such shafts being provided with crank-arms h and h', connected by a pitman I, so the front and rear wheels will be caused to turn in unison, 'as will be understood from Figs. l and 2 of the draw- 4o ings.

to their shafts H and H and are both constructed with openings which operate at the same point upon the row and between said openings, the one 'with a liattening or rolling surface and the other with cutters. By this construction I am able to mash down the pertion of the growing row which it lis desired to chop and then to cut the masheddown portion to eectually chop the cotton at the desired point in the row. Y

In the construction shown the front and The front and rear wheels aresecured rear wheels .I and K are alike in certain respects, each being provided with rimsj or Zt, which are provided in their inner sides with similarl y spaced-apart undercut notches j 55 and t, in which tit the tenons on the mash-l ing-bars and the cutters presently described. The front or mashing Wheel J is provided with themashing-bars L, provided at their ends with tenons Z, fitted to the notches j' in 6o the ri msj, while the blades M have their ends formedv at Vm to fit in Vthe notches k of the rims 7c. By this Aconstruction bars L and cutters M may be supplied to the wheels and removed 'at will to vary the Width of the spaces 65 provided in both the mashing and cutting wheels,which are designed to leave untouched the portions of the row which it is desired to leave standing. The opposite rims of the wheels .I and K are held together by means 7o of bolts N and O, which operate to secure the mashingbars and the cutting-plates, it being understood that by tightening the rods N and O the end rims `can be drawn iirmly toward each other to secure the attached parts and by loosening said rods the mashing bars and cutters can be removed for any desired purpose.

A harrow P is provided at the rear of the machine to harrow the cotton after it is chopped. 8o

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The cotton f chopper herein described comprising the framing provided with bearings for the whee lshafts,the wheel-shafts provided with crank-arms, the pitman connecting said crank-arms, and the front and rear wheels on the shafts, the front wheel being constructed with rims'provided in their inner 9o faces with undercut notches and with mashing-bars held at their ends in said notches and adapted for application to the rimswhereby to provide spaces betweenpthe sets of mashing-bars, and the rear wheel provided with 9; rims and with cutting-blades held therein and arranged in sets with the adjacent sets spaced apart and such spaces arranged relatively to the spaces of the front wheel whereby they will strike the row at the same points with roo the spaces of the front wheel, all substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A cotton-chopper comprising the front wheel provided with spaces to leave untouched portions of the row, and with mashing devices to mash certain portions of the row, the cutting-wheel in rear ofthe mashingwheel and `provided with openings or spaces corresponding to those of the mashing-Wheel and with cutters corresponding to the mashing devices of the meshing-wheel and connections between the front and rear wheels whereby the cutters of the cutting-wheelwill operate upon the port-ions of the row mashed by the meshing-wheel, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination of the washing-wheel having meshing-hars and openings or spaces, the cutting-wheel having cutters and openings or spaces corresponding to those of the mashing-wheel and connections between the mashiug and cutting wheels whereby they will be caused to operate in unison, substantiaily as set forth.

4. A cotton-chopper comprising the framing, the washing-wheel journaled therein and having meshing devices and openings or spaces, the cutting-wheel journaled in the frame in rear of the mashing-wheel and having openings or spaces corresponding to those of the [hashing-Wheel and cutters corresponding to the mashing devices of the mashing- Wheel, connections between the mashing- Wheel and the cutting-wheel whereby the spaces and mashing devices and cutters thereof will be caused to cooperate, and the harrow in rear of the cutting-Wheel, substantially as set forth.

AZZERIAH D. EZZELL.

Witnesses:

JOHN E. FoWLER, ROBERT M. CRUMPLER, Sr. 

